In the first part of 2008 movie production in LA is up 11 percent as studios anticipate ahead of a possible actors’ strike.
Tag: 04.27.08
Olafur Eliasson Talks About The Meaning Of Art
“Physical experience makes a much deeper impression than a purely intellectual encounter. I can explain to you what it’s like to feel cold, but I can also have you feel the cold yourself through my art. My goal is to sensitize people to highly complex questions.”
Debate: Where Should The Violins Sit?
“Symphony orchestras have two separate violin sections, and there are two ways to seat them: all the violins on the conductor’s left, or ‘divided,’ with the first violins on the left and second violins on the right. This is becoming a big issue for music fans and critics”
Why Artists Should Give It Away
“Everyone who has tried posting books online has done it again. That’s a pretty good indicator it works. An artist’s enemy is obscurity, not piracy.”
Miami Tries A New Free Art School
“Members of the local Establishment, enamored with their smart new friends–collectors, artists, and curators from around the world–want to see if they can get them to stick around. It’s partly about wishing to be taken seriously as a cultural alternative to New York and Los Angeles. But it’s also a bet that fertilizing the creative class is good economic-development policy–especially in a city hit hard by the real-estate meltdown.”
Movies That Can Change The World
“Do films really change the world? Do films about changing the world make any money? To the first question, the Hollywood answer is probably a shrug, but to the second, for the moment at least, it would appear to be yes.”
When Everyone’s An Author (A Glut)
“In 2007, a whopping 400,000 books were published or distributed in the United States, up from 300,000 in 2006, according to the industry tracker Bowker, which attributed the sharp rise to the number of print-on-demand books and reprints of out-of-print titles. In short, everyone has a story — and everyone wants to tell it. Fewer people may be reading, but everywhere you turn, Americans are sounding their barbaric yawps over the roofs of the world.”
A Need To Reinvent Public Radio
“The urgency to find new formats is driven by audience research that can be read as glass half-empty or half-full. The 28 million weekly public radio listeners recorded by Arbitron in spring 2007 topped the previous high of 27.5 million in 2004. But the research also showed that the listeners were tuning in for shorter periods.”
Jerome Robbins – Greatness In The Shadow Of Greatness
Robbins spent 30 years of his life working with Balanchine’s NY City Ballet. “This kept him in Balanchine’s shadow, but on the whole he loved and revered that shadow. It is hard to think of any world-famous artist in history working as Robbins chose to: as great a celebrity as Balanchine or more so, and much wealthier, he used the dancers Balanchine had trained, he used ballet technique as Balanchine had developed it, and his ballets were performed in a repertory that was dominated by Balanchine’s.”
A Less Flattering Portrait Of Norman Mailer From His Secret Papers
“An archive of Mallory’s personal papers, recently bought by Harvard University, was shown exclusively to The Sunday Times on Friday. It contains a devastating portrait of Mailer’s sexual decline from world-class lothario to malfunctioning lover.”